44 CAFNR Researchers Contribute to Innovation
CAFNR researchers generate innovations that are further developed in commercial settings for the benefit of society each year. In calendar year 2022, 44 CAFNR researchers had patents, commercial agreements, startup companies and first product sales. Click here for a full list of researchers.
Nutrition and Exercise Physiology Professor Receives ACSM Citation Award
Jill Kanaley, professor and interim chair of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, was awarded the Citation Award by the American College of Sports Medicine. Kanaley received the award during the organization’s annual meeting in Denver, Colo.
CAFNR Faculty Member Appointed to Nationwide Insurance Board
Keri Jacobs has accepted a role on the Board of Directors for Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. Jacobs is an associate professor of agricultural and applied economics, the MFA Chair in Agribusiness, and executive director of the Graduate Institute of Cooperative Leadership (GICL).
CAFNR faculty members have received the following recent grants (listed by Principal Investigator):
Reid Smeda, Work Order No. 3, Bayer Cropscience, 5/1/23-4/30/24, $13,860
Soyon Park, Understanding and engineering host defense to a parasitic plant, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 7/1/23-6/30/26, $749,611
Christine Elsik, Functional and comparative annotation of salmonid genomes, Agricultural Research Service, 5/1/23-4/30/24, $12,000
Mengshi Lin, DSFAS: Exploring a Machine Learning-driven Approach for Multiplex Detection of Food Contaminants by SERS, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 7/1/23-6/30/26, $649,483
Man Phuoc Huynh, Field Trial, BioConsortia, Inc., 3/21/23-3/21/26, $14,900
Andrew Scaboo, North Missouri Soybean Breeding Program, Mo Soybean Merchandising Council, 7/1/23-6/30/24, $475,000
Grover Shannon, Delta Center Soybean Breeding Program 2023-2024, Mo Soybean Merchandising Council, 4/1/23-3/31/24, $485,000
Jianfeng Zhou, Misouri Rural Engery Audit Program, US Department of Agriculture, 1/1/23-6/7/23, $99,966.
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